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With all this "controversy" we feel it's important to give at least eight solid reasons why your "heritage not hate" campaign is complete bullshit, so hold onto your pitchforks and check out this exclusive BSAlert.com list...

* Even if you could make the highly-arguable claim that the Civil War was about state's rights instead of slavery, this doesn't explain why the confederate flag largely disappeared as a symbol in the South for 83 years (end of Civil War in 1865 to Strom Thurmond's presidential bid in 1948). Did state's rights stop becoming an issue for 83 years?

* When the confederate flag showed back up in public, it was directly attributed to the KKK and the Dixiecrat party (which was objectively a racist group. Article 4 of its platform: "We stand for the segregation of the races.")

* Flying the current Confederate flag and expecting it to stand for state's rights instead of white supremacy is like flying a flag with a swastika and expecting it to stand for good fortune instead of Nazism. (The Swastika's origins are far more noble than what people think today)

* We don't fly the flags of defeated enemies over our government institutions. Government itself should not be flying any flag other than its own, particularly one that attempted to overthrow it.

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